Теория и практика перевода - Учебное пособие (М.И. Солнышкина)

Roughly HTT can be divided into 3 main groups.

Transformational Approach

Source Text

Transformations Morphological level Lexical level Syntactic level

Target Text

There are three levels of transformation:

Denotative Approach

Source Text

Source Concept (Denotative)

Target Concept (Denotative)

Target Text

Communicational Approach to Translation

Message Sender	Intermediary (Translator)	Message Recipient
Source Text	Encoding /Decoding	Target Text

Language thesaurus

Subject thesaurus

monolingual communication. bilingual communication

Distributional Approach

Source Text

Translation

Target Text

Word combinations with regular distribution patterns

Translated by parts using

Matching Rules

Word combinations with regular distribution patterns

Word combinations with occasional distribution

patterns

Translated in a unique way as a conceptual whole

Occasional word combinations

Regular and occasional distribution patterns.

 Answer the questions and comment on the following:

1. What are Human Translation Theories?

2. Give the analysis of the Transformational Approach.

3. Comment on the Denotative Approach.

4. Explain the approach to translation accordingly the theory of communication.

5. Characterise the Distributional Approach.

6. Compare the three basic theories of translation.

7. Give the advantages and disadvantages of the Distributional Approach.

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